I am quite lucky at the moment to have a child who is bursting with ideas as to what to do before she has even walked outside the school gate! She insists that I take her to the cheap shop for supplies straight away, and if I suggest we go home and she can brainstorm for a few minutes beforehand, then I get the feeling I am dragging her down lol.

We have helped her once with a Melbourne cup hat, when she was in grade 2, and we were using a hot glue gun to stick everything together. We help with things like "Hold this here for a second mum"

When she has to write or draw etc, she will either get on the computer and type it out, or handwrite it out herself. she will always bring it to us to spellcheck, and if she gets anything wrong, we tell her there is a word wrong, and see if she picks up on which word it is. I never give it to her straight away. If she doesn't see the mistake, we tell her, and ask her what did she miss? Most times she works it out herself, and if she doesn't we then say, ok, you got the first 3 letters right, the last few need fixing. (This applies to her homework as well) MIL is huge on telling DD and niece what they spelt wrong and tells them the correct spelling straight away, I prefer her to work it out herself.

Last year while we were away for a weekend, DD went out into my parents garden and took some flower photo's with her little point and shoot camera. I was having a nap at the time, and when i woke, she had convinced my mum to take her to Harvery Norman to print the pics, then take her to the newsagent to get some cardboard so she could do a collage of photo's to enter the school's art competition. she even had nanny whip out her scrapbooking supplies for pens and whatever else it was that she used. She got a Highly Commended for her collage...so proud..and all while I napped with DS.

I'm sure it will change over the next few years though...